Gérard Watkins

Biography

Gérard Watkins is an English-French actor, playwright, director, and songwriter. As a stage actor he has performed in over forty productions in Paris with such directors as Véronique Bellegarde, Julie Beres, Jean-Claude Buchard, Elizabeth Chailloux, Michel Didym, André Engel, Frederic Fisbach, Marc François, Daniel Jeanneteau, Philipe Lanton, Jean-Louis Martinelli, Lars Noren, Claude Régy, Yann Ritsema, Bernard Sobel, Viviane Theophilides, and Jean-Pierre Vincent. Among his critically acclaimed performances are Ian in Sarah Kane's Blasted, Edmond in King Lear, and Rosalind in As you Like it. In the Cinema he is perhaps best known for his role in the 2009 film Taken as Patrice Saint Clair, the sex trafficking kingpin that runs the operation that kidnapped the protagonist's 17-year old daughter, but he has also performed with directors as Julie Lopez Curval, Jérome Salle, Yann Samuel, Julian Schnabel, Hugo Santiago, and Peter Watkins. Since 1994 he has directed his own theatre company, the Perdita Ensemble, where he has staged all of his plays, the Secret Capital, Follow Me, The Tower, In the Faraway Forest, Icone, Identity, Lost, and I Don't Remember Very Well.

Known For

EastEnders

The Hitchhiker

Taken

Marie Antoinette

Bordertown

Alice Nevers, le juge est une femme

The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

All Movies (32)

• Stereo Girls2026 · as Pierre
• Amarres2023
• Our Brothers2022 · as Le directeur de l'IGS
• The Accusation2021 · as L'avocat général
• Normandy Nude2018 · as Volker
• The Odyssey2016 · as Le maître de cérémonie
• Le monde qui nous perd2015 · as Avocat partie civile
• Colt 452014 · as Calhoun
• The Ponzi Scheme2014 · as Banquier Chmelinski
• Silences d'état2013 · as Stéphane Ferran
• Solitudes2012 · as Le capitaine de police
• Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs)2010 · as Detective
• Going South2009 · as Le père
• Hidden Diary2009 · as Gilles
• The Invisible Woman2009 · as Paul
• The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch2008 · as Cattaneo
• Taken2008 · as Patrice Saint-Clair
• The Feelings Factory2008 · as Michel
• Le Roi Lear2007 · as Edmund
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly2007 · as Doctor Cocheton
• Je me fais rare2006 · as Acteur 1
• The Returned2004 · as Le fils du maire
• Love Me If You Dare2003 · as Julien's Father
• La Commune (Paris, 1871)2003 · as Gérard Bourlet
• The Wolf of the West Coast2002 · as Harry
• Les Danseurs du Mozambique1992 · as Le chasseur
• Near Mrs.1992 · as Techtronics guard #1
• Oostende1991 · as L'auto stoppeur
• New York 19351988 · as Un invité
• Travelling avant1987 · as Young brawler
• Public Security1987
• On a volé Charlie Spencer !1986 · as Le soldat américain du film

All TV Shows (11)

• 9/122024 · as Arnaud
• Marie Antoinette2022 · as Duc de Choiseul
• Les Châtaigniers du désert2010 · as Révérend Le Sage
• Venus & Apollo2005
• Alice Nevers, le juge est une femme2002 · as Carlo Conti
• La Commune (Paris, 1871)2000 · as Gérard Bourlet
• Bordertown1989 · as Paul Dumont
• Hemingway1988
• Floodtide1987 · as TJ
• EastEnders1985 · as Gendarme
• The Hitchhiker1983 · as Eric